OCR Text |
Show Author of Seventy Novels E. Phillips Oppenheim Although he Is an Englishman and makes hi 8 home exclusively la his own country, he may be styled an International Interna-tional novelist, for he undoubtedly ha as many readers In America as across the sea; In fact, his popularity Is about as great In this country as that of any one of our native writers. If the average British novelist were as wise as Oppenheim In the tastes of his public and did not All his books with so much about tea, tennis and domestic Infidelities, he might also be as popular at home nnd abroad, Oppenheim Op-penheim is modern enough, especially especial-ly when treating of the modern girl, but he slicks mostly to the old stand-bys stand-bys of love, romance, adventure and mystery; and as a proof that It pays, may be citi'd the fact that he Is author au-thor of seventy novels, probubly an jnequuled record. - ...... |